Re: recent Gartner's publication

On Oct 15, 2015 04:40, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:
> > I don't like this about EDB:
> >
> > Community leadership: EnterpriseDB is the primary contributor to the
> > Postgres community, and responsible for recent features such as JSON
support
> > ....
> >
> > Am I right and "recent features such as JSON support" means our (me,
Teodor
> > Sigaev, Andrew Dunstan, Alexander Korotkov, Peter Geoghegan) work on
jsonb ?
> > If so, should we ask Gartner to correct this ?
>
> Of course not. As JD points out, it refers to me having developed the
> original version of the JSON parser. At some point (a long time ago),
> I was asked about what EnterpriseDB employees have contributed to the
> community, and that's one of the things I mentioned. It's not the
> only thing I mentioned, and it's not in my opinion the most important
> thing I've done in the last 5 years, but that's what they picked.
> Lots of other people have done great work in that area since then, far
> exceeding my original contribution. I can take credit only for
> getting it off the ground.

Well, if "recent" here is not 9.4, then you're right. Still looks slyish,
though.

>
> The bit about "partitioning" seems like an outright mistake. I'm
> almost sure that's referring to one of EDB's proprietary features, not
> anything community-related.

Yes, "recent" here is very funny.

>
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